Slant Magazine : Before Jonathan Glazer made the successful
transition from music videos to feature films, he was directing commercials
for Levi's, Volkswagen and Nike. The London native has
also produced some of the more cinematic videos to hit the MTV airwaves.
Though his clip for Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity won the 1997 Video
Music Award for Video of the Year, it is his work for Radiohead and U.N.K.L.E.
that remains his most daring. Glazer claims that his video for Radiohead's Karma
Police was inspired by a bad dream. In this creepy revenge clip, a car
slowly follows a man running down a desolate road. When the man turns to face
his potential killer, the car pulls back only to reveal a gas leakage in its
wake. Glazer's remarkable use of point-of-view implicates the spectator in the
clip's action but it's the spooky way with which he fashions a Möbius strip
from karmic irony that makes Karma Police one of the more memorable
clips of the last few years. (lien)